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.No. 739,677. PATENTBD SEPT. 22, 1903.

T. R. HYDE, JR.

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APPLICATION FILED APR. 14, 1903.

I0 MODEL,

UNITEII STATES fatented September 22, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

I THEOPHILUS R. HYDE, JR., OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF'WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT. I

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Pat Application filed April 14, 1903 To aZZ whom zit may concern:

Be it known that I, THEOPHILUS R. HYDE, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Studs, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of gar- :o merit-fastening devices most commonly used on gloves and known as snap-fasteners and composed of a socket member and a 00- operating member known as a stud and sometimes called a head, and the invention herein relates to the stud. or head.

The object of the invention is to construct a spring-stud of what is known as the birdcage variety in asimple and economical way, so as to permit a limited play of the arms of 2c the spring and prevent their displacement and the overcoming of their elastic limit.

The invention consists of a three-part stud" comprising a spring-head of bulbous shape, having its spring-arms bent to form a base- 2 5 flange and connected by a collet to an eyelet, which latter has a rim orbead projecting from its barrel sufiicently far into the spring-head in the plane of its base-flange to prevent the' displacement of the arms of the spring-head, while admitting of sufficient'movement to insure the necessary resilience in engaging the complemental socket member, all as I will proceed now more particularly to set forth and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention,-in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure l is a plan view of the spring-head blank. Fig. 2 shows the component parts of the stud ready for assembling: Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the finished stud. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the finished stud. Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the finished stud.- Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of the stud applied to fabric by an open washer. Fig. 7 is a Ion-- .of the said arms as to overcome the elastic ent No. 739,677, dated September 22, 1903.

Serial No. 162,528. (No model.)

gitudinal section of the stud applied to fabric by a closed washer.

The spring-head may be formed in any of a variety of ways-as, for example, by the use of a blank 1, having radiating arms, Fig. 1, which is bent to form a bulbous head 2, the ends of the arms being bent tov form a basefiange 3. (See Fig. 2.)

The fastening device is an open-end eyelet 4, having a flange 5, with a rim or bead 6 projecting above the flange in the line of the barrel, so that when the spring-head and the eyelet are assembled, as in Fig. 4, this rim or bead will enter the spring-head in the plane of its base-flange, and while admitting of a limited movement of the arms of the spring-head in order to give the spring-head sufficient resilience to be entered into and withdrawn from the socket will also prevent such compression 5 limit of the spring-head. The spring-head and the eyelet are united by means of a collet 7, engaging their respective flanges, said collet being a flanged annulus to which the spring-head is first secured, as in Fig. 2, and then its flange bent under the flange of the eyelet, as shown in Fig. 4c.

The stud may be applied to a fabric or garment 8 in any usual or approved way and, with an open washer 9, Fig. 6, or a covered washer 10, Fig. 7, to 'receivethe upset end of the eyelet, or the washer may be dispensed with where the fabric or the material of the garment is sufficiently thick or heavy to take the strains, and any desired form or construction of washer may be employed where neces sary or desired.

What I claim is-- 1. A three-part stud, comprising'a bulbous spring-head of so-called bird-cage form, having its spring-arms bent to 'form a base-' flange, a fastening-eyelet having a rim or bead projecting in line of its barrel and extending into said spring-head in the plane of its baseflange, and a collet engaging the eyelet and the base-flange of the spring-head to unitethe base-flange of the spring-head to unite 1o them. them, combined with a washer to receive the 2. A three-part stud, comprising a bulbous upset end of the eyelet. 1 spring-head of so-called bird-cage form, In testimony whereof I have hereunto'set 5 having its spring-arms bent to form a basemy hand this 13th day of ApriL A. D. 1903. flange, a fastening-eyelet havingarimor' bead THEOPHILUS R. HYDE, JR.

projeetingin line of its barrel and extending Witnesses: into said spring-head in the plane of its base- HENRY FEEL, flange, and a collet engaging the eyelet and J. H. PILLING. 

